New Feature - Highwire offers a fully integrated blog platform

One of the most requested features that we get on Highwire is the ability to create and manage your own blog directly through your Highwire admin. We are happy to announce that we have completed this feature! Highwire now offers a fully integrated blog to help you get more involved with your customer community.

With our new blogging platform, you can publish detailed blog articles, categorize using tags and engage discussions with moderated commenting system.

Where can I see an example?

How do I get started?

To enable your blog and start posting, just visit the "Blog" section under the Marketing menu. You will be asked a few questions to get your blog started. Once your blog is set up, you can start publishing articles by adding posts.

What's the URL for my blog?

Your blog will be located as a sub-directory of your stores domain. ex: http://www.mystore.com/blog

How do I customize my blog?

We added two additional templates to the template system specific for blog pages. If the blog.html and blog_post.html files doe not exist, we'll use a generic blog template. We've done our best to make the generic template work with your existing theme, but there may be a few inconsistencies.

If you are using the Benchmark theme, you will want to download or re-install to obtain the latest blog templates. If you want to customize it further, you can view our template documentation at:

We tried to make the generic template work with most themes. If you need further customization, this can be done with your own HTML templates and CSS. I've attached some sample code on an earlier post.

This is super great. Kinda sad for the fact I asked would highwire be adding a blog to the system anytime soon late last year and was met with a no. spend $500 to add one to my site. Is there anyway to transfer my blog from wordpress to the platform yall have?

@imperfectconcepts - yes, it was something that we got out sooner than expected :-) -- The best way to transfer is to just do a copy/paste! It will take a bit to do at first, but once you are done it will be one less headache dealing with another platform!

I'm trying to use NetworkedBlogs to auto post to Facebook. It's asking for my Feed Link (which is not the same as the blog home page). Where do I find that?

Also, if someone subscribes to my rss feed, it just post new items as I add them. Is there a feed link for our blogs that people can follow? I'm assuming it's the same link I need for NetworkedBlogs, but there should be a way for people to follow our blogs.

They are not looking for yourstore.com/blog. Normally, what I would use is yourstore.com/rss, but that is just a feed of new items as they are added, not a blog feed. Having an option for people to follow your blog is pretty standard, but I'm not seeing that anywhere.

Actually, we were able to get this featured added for you- Just attach .atom to the end of your blog URL.. so for example, yoursite.com/blog.atom (here is our benchmark theme blog rss http://benchmark.highwire.com/blog.atom )

Is there anything else I have to do, maybe to the template? I'm using the benchmark template, but when I add the .atom to the end of the URL (http://www.randomactsart.com/blog.atom), I get a 404 page not found error.